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"La poésie de Jean Tardieu étonne par sa transparence. À quoi tient cette transparence ? D'abord, à la familiarité du fond unie à la singularité des formes qui l'expriment. Comme, le plus souvent,...

The Focus Student Editions are designed for French language courses in literature and culture.Prepared with non-native French speakers in mind, these editions include an introduction (in French), the...

A new edition of C.L.R. James’s authorized biographyC.L.R. James was a man of prodigious and varied accomplishments. He was a protean twentieth-century Marxist intellectual, widely recognized as a...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timePublished in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the...

This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection―the first of its kind―invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley’s 1976 book was a publishing...

A highly praised philosophical argument against Hobbesian egoism and theories derived from Hume that believe our reasons for acting are rooted solely in our desires. An important contribution to the...

A lively discussion of American and british poets, this book i both an appreciation of an and introduction to the important poetry of this century.

How did the U.S. become bogged down in a seemingly endless Asian conflict? This authoritative book is the first to place the Vietnam War in the perspective of two hundred years of history, and it...

Venezuela has an immensely rich bird fauna, with 1,381 known species, many of them found nowhere else in the world. This spectacularly illustrated, comprehensive, and up-to-date guide brings together...